lead the charge

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlead the chargelead the chargeto make a strong effort to do somethingIt was small businesses that led the charge against health care changes. →charge

Examples from the Corpus

lead the charge• Allen led the charge, but could they get a goal back?• But Dole has, in his long Senatecareer, led the charge for the second -, third-and fourth-largest.• Popperled the charge against, describing Wittgenstein s picture theory of language as hopelessly and indeed outrageously mistaken.• But it was Lieutenant Harvey who was still leading the charge as he hurdled elegantly over the wire and into no-man's-land.• But it is unrealistic to expect businesses to lead the chargealone.• C., to lead the charge against the BayGuardian.• Its guitar-twanging shocktroopsled the charge away from what Ulan Bator had been, and toward what it was becoming.